Politics and Government

• Blackshirts
  Blackshirts
  The Blackshirts were Fascist paramilitary groups in Italy during the period immediately following World War I and until the end of World War II...
  
  , a paramilitary movement of the Fascist Party in Italy during World War II and the interbellum years
• Blackshirts (India)
  Blackshirts (India)
  Blackshirts are members of the anti-religious atheist quasi-political organization Dravidar Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu, founded by "Periyar" E V Ramasamy. The members wear black shirts to mock and protest the saffron vestments of Hindu religious leaders, and sadhus as black is generally associated with...
  
  , an anti-religious atheist quasi-political movement in India
• British Union of Fascists
  British Union of Fascists
  The British Union was a political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1932 by Sir Oswald Mosley as the British Union of Fascists, in 1936 it changed its name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists and then in 1937 to simply the British Union...
  
  , whose party nickname was "Blackshirts"
• Schutzstaffel
  Schutzstaffel
  The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...
  
   (SS), Nazi military organization who had the nickname as they wore black and brown uniforms, compared to the "brownshirts" Sturmabteilung
  Sturmabteilung
  The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
  
   (SA)
• Blackshirts (Australia), a militant fathers' rights group in Australia.

Media and Entertainment

• Blackshirts (football)
  Blackshirts (football)
  The Blackshirts are the first-string defensive unit players for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team.-History:The term originally dates back to the early 1960s and refers to the black practice jerseys that Nebraska's first-string defenders began to wear during practice...
  
  , the informal name for the University of Nebraska football team defense
• Blackshirt, a 'gentleman criminal', is the main fictional character in a series of crime and adventure novels published between 1925 and 1969, written by Bruce Graeme (the pen name of Graham Montague Jeffries), then by his son Roderic Jeffries.